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11Mar2009

The power of a million monkeys

DateWednesday, March 11, 2009 at 10:12AM

When a million monkeys play Go, they win.

Enter the Monte Carlo method, named by its Manhattan Project pioneers for the casinos where they gambled. It consists of random simulations repeated again and again until patterns and probabilities emerge: the characteristics of an atomic bomb explosion, phase states in quantum fields, the outcome of a Go game. Programs like MoGO and Many Faces simulate random games from start to finish, over and over and over again, with no concern for figuring out which of any given move is best.
--Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords [wired.com]

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